The Islamic Republic of Iran’s New Population Policy and Recent Changes in Fertility

After dropping rapidly and steadily over two decades, fertility in Iran stabilized between 2001 2011 at around 1.9 to 2 children per woman, before starting rise slightly 2012 2016, then falling fairly quickly. This coincided with the implementation of Islamic Republic’s new population policy, its aggressive coercive measures, one whose goals was reverse downwards trend fertility. Given changes proximate remote determinants Iran, decline since it is assumed that this policy triggered a reduction intervals births 2015, leading slight already married couples. The other latent objective drive Iran’s up 150 million inhabitants near future. utopian given demographic dynamics, but conceals political ideological goal asserting geopolitical significance within region, by drawing on novel immigration make for low